{"id":12488,"date":"2019-09-25T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2019-09-25T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:35:12","slug":"leas-first-stakes-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/leas-first-stakes-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lea\u2019s First Stakes Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Vast, a daughter of Claiborne Farm\u2019s first crop sire Lea, won the Hollywood Wildcat S. on September 22 at Monmouth by 2 \u00be lengths, to become the popular young stallion\u2019s first stakes winner. Lea stands for $7500 at Claiborne, and his yearlings have been well-supported, with an average of over $75,000 at auction.<\/p>\r\n

By the precocious son of Giant\u2019s Causeway, First Samurai, also the sire of young stallion Justin Phillip, Lea boasts a pedigree rich in Northern Dancer, through Storm Bird, Dixieland Band, and Sadler\u2019s Wells, and Vast\u2019s dam, Enth, adds Nijinsky II to the mix, a powerful concoction of some of the strongest Northern Dancer influences. Vast\u2019s pedigree also includes a cocktail of the combination of Nasrullah and Turn-to, closely related sires whose combination creates stakes winners. Through Rahy, Riverman, Nashua, Best Turn, and Nantallah, this combination is echoed top and bottom.<\/p>\r\n

As well, the similarly bred Miswaki and Seeking the Gold appear top and bottom, offering inbreeding to La Troienne through Buckpasser, with the addition of a dose of Fappiano in the sire\u2019s pedigree to complement all that Mr. Prospector.<\/p>\r\n

It is, however, through remarkable inbreeding to Blue Hen mare Special, as well the third dam of phenomenal sire Blame (also standing at Claiborne), that this pedigree derives its true strength. Vast is inbred to the Forli mare Special 6 x 4, through sire and dam, via the half-sisters Fairy Bridge, by Bold Reason and the dam of Sadler\u2019s Wells, and Bound, by Nijinsky II. Special\u2019s dam was Thong, a daughter of one of the greatest Blue Hens of the twentieth century, Rough Shod II (also tail female of Nureyev). Bound was sold at Keeneland November in the late nineties for $2.2million by Claiborne to John Magnier of Coolmore, a transaction between giants that demonstrated, in a depressed market, the mare\u2019s true worth.<\/p>\r\n

Lea\u2019s racing career was distinguished by a new track record setting win in the Donn H.-G1 over future Champion Will Take Charge, and he was second to another current first crop phenom, Liam\u2019s Map, in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Dirt Mile S.-G1, earning him over $2million. Though so many elements of his pedigree suggest turf success, he was brilliant on both dirt and turf, and would seem to be a young stallion to watch, as his greatest successes came with maturity: he himself did not start at two, and he won the Donn at five. Vast would seem to have a long and stellar career in front of her.<\/p>\r\n

— Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" Vast, a daughter of Claiborne Farm\u2019s first crop sire Lea, won the Hollywood Wildcat S. on September 22 at Monmouth by 2 \u00be lengths, to become the popular young stallion\u2019s first stakes winner. Lea stands for $7500 at Claiborne, and his yearlings have been well-supported, with an average of over $75,000 at auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}